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Spiritual exercise: Thematic Word Study
Resting Melanie Nixon Resting Melanie Nixon

Spiritual exercise: Thematic Word Study

This month I invite you to join me in the Scriptures with an open heart to what God longs to reveal to us.

This is a suggestion of a slow reading, prayerful and responsive study for God to form, renew, and transform our hearts and living…

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Compassion. Leadership. And Fiction.
Resonating Resources Melanie Nixon Resonating Resources Melanie Nixon

Compassion. Leadership. And Fiction.

Picking up these two books has been renewing, transforming, and a gentle challenge.

Two themes of yearning in my life for growth and greater awareness that I was really struggling with and praying into. Through these readings, I have found clarity, gracefulness, and deepening of trust in my calling and journey in faith.

If you are just curious, or struggling with leading, or burnout…

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Guest feature
Reaching Out Melanie Nixon Reaching Out Melanie Nixon

Guest feature

I thought nothing of this Pieta when I saw it in the Church of St. Giles off a busy side street in Prague.

I documented it anyway.

It was later in the evening after editing the shot and after going to bed that I awoke from a shallow sleep, haunted. This image was on my mind and under my skin. The agony depicted in this shot didn’t take immediately…

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Day by Day
Reflection Melanie Nixon Reflection Melanie Nixon

Day by Day

“Day by day” is a phrase you’ll often hear me say. 

A friend recently asked me why I use it so often, especially when asked “How are you doing?” 

I had an answer but it was a long one…

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